Recently I had to do a table in rAbidWord
Abiword failed. How? Every which way including sideways.
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I have to create text in Geany
and then bring into the Openoffice sfs which I always use in preference
I have always expected Abiword to have a limit of about 20 pages
Add pics and it starts to collapse.
Can Abiword still do twenty pages? Maybe with a following wind and if you don't scroll or edit the text.

In users mind - it is Puppy that can not even
do a bit of word processing . . .

Hey, if there's anything else out there that has even basic support for .rtf/.doc/.odf/.odt/etc., I'm all for it.

After a handful of years, Puppy 4.3.1's version of AbiWord is basically the FIRST time I've managed to get AbiWord to work decently enough to be usable (IMO). (I described most of the problems I'd had with it in another thread, a while back - and as I mentioned there, it's probably a good WP... if it works for you.)

LyX and Kwriter need that many dependencies that you might as well have open office.

I just did some experimenting with LyX and it is basically useless in short form, needs a ton of dependencies to actually do anything..

TeXmacs might be ok. It compiles ok, but it is limited to what formats it can deal with, but so long as it can deal with postscript and pdf then it's useful.. especially for scientists. (Time travelers???). It is still hefty though with the TeX and guile dependencies needed.

I also had a look at TED today and it is very fast and It's only 3M compressed.

I read that it is able to read and write Word DOC files but I couldn't figure out how to do it. RTF and TXT files seems ok though. It does provide most of the basic functions and is simple enough to use.

For the average user it may be adequate but for serious writers I would still suggest OO. I have never liked Abiword as it always seems to have problems with large documents._________________Puppy Software <-> Distros <-> Puppy Linux Tips

I've used Abiword for years, both in Windows and Linux. It's fine for basic text. But when you try anything fancy, like tables or graphics, it becomes either awkward or completely useless.

I had a look at Ted by getting the Debian package plus libpcre3. It works OK but only uses the RTF format. I'm guessing that some anti-MS zealots will complain about this. And there does not appear to be any support for DOC/DOCX files, which really limits its utility.

Indeed, unfortunately, abiword has always had many limitations that make it unsuitable for continuous or serious or long-winded writing. docx conversion in abiword v. 2.8 and later is a great feature, but once your document is converted, you may prefer to write or edit it with one of the following applications.

Ideally, we might also want something that could take the place of AbiWord and be included and usable out-of-the-box in a Puppy derivative. That'd tend to rule out anything that requires Java, Wine, and of course, OpenOffice. _________________[ Puppy 4.3.1 JP, Frugal install | 1GB RAM | 1.3GB swap ] * My Pidgin Builds for Puppy 4.3.1+
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I read a review of Linux Word processors like 6 months ago, They recommended Kword over abiword/Open Office for doc files, also I had Kword working in the past in a around 30MB pet, Probably if I tried real hard I could bring it down to about 20-25MB, which is a far cry from Open Office. Actually If puppy dropped gtk and went with QT like I mentioned in the past, It really wouldn't add add that much to the distro. But it would take a lot of work figuring out all the replacement apps and scripts.
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